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In February 2013, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum mandating that federal agencies with at least $100 million in annual research and development expenditures make the results ~ digital data and publications ~ of their funded research publically available. Since then, federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, have issued their requirements...
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UNH is preparing to go live with its much-anticipated Science DMZ. The Science DMZ, called ScienceNet, will support high performance science applications by enabling high-speed transfers of large data sets using a “friction free” network path, a dedicated high-performance Data Transfer Node (DTN), and a performance measurement/test node.
Why is this an exciting development for the UNH research...
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The White House Office of Management and Budget issued new guidance effective as of December 26, 2014 designed to streamline and simplify the policy framework for grants and other types of agreements issued by the federal government. Under Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), this new “Uniform Guidance” combines and replaces eight federal circulars, three of which previously...
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UNH ecologist Rebecca Rowe and Rebecca Terry of Oregon State University probed the unique fossil record of Homestead Cave, in the Great Basin west of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, to see how small mammals like mice and voles responded to a period of natural rapid warming almost 13,000 years ago in comparison to contemporary climate warming.
Rowe and Terry pieced together fossil and contemporary data...
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Led by UNH biogeochemical oceanographer Joe Salisbury, a group of 15 scientists is aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Gordon Gunter on a two-leg, 34-day expedition that will help determine how humans are causing changes in the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of oceans, leading to the global acidification of seawater.
Working 24 hours a day, the...
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